A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes

Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ... by im3w1l on Sunday May 09, 2021 @02:06PM (#27098172)

Here's a thought. When you reach IQ 135 you start becoming "io-bound". But this is a function of the complexity of our society. As our society and technology gets more complicated the "skillcap" will shift upwards, and a higher IQ will be needed for full performance.

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Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ... by epivosism on Sunday May 09, 2021 @02:25PM (#27098355)

Check out SMPY - here's an image of their results showing that academic output, patents, tenure, income continues to increase well beyond IQ 135. Details in the later links.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4b8ThyfDgzs/U29nQEBAQTI/AAAAAAAAE...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_of_Mathematically_Precoc...

https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/

The obvious question is, if IQ (or whatever SAT is measuring) is irrelevant, why is it so predictive of lifetime academic output?

Also, people try to attack the SAT as nothing more than test prep - but I don't think that argument works well because it supposes you can produce kids who score 700 on the math SAT before age 13; such a training program has never been observed.

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Re:A review of correlations between big five personality typ... by sokoloff on Sunday May 09, 2021 @02:35PM (#27098445)

Some amount of test prep is surely helpful in terms of understanding the test format and strategies, but it does seem (almost?) obvious that the SAT is actually measuring something other than test prep.

NB: SMPY qualifications for at least the early cohorts of the study are “before 13” (so, 12 or younger).

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